The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1887-06-14
TWO.MULE THIEF,
Captured in Saline County This
Morning by Sheriff Bowers.

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1t will be remembered that about
Nav 9Th, a valuable mule was stolen
from Thomas HI. Senkins. living I'M
the north part of the county, and the
owner traced the animal to Sedalia,
where it had been bought by Stephens
d Co., and a check for the money
given the seller of the mule. Steps
were instantly taken to stop payment
on the check, and the receiver must
have had misgivings for he skipped out
of town. His description was known,
however, and the officers have been
on the alert for any news concerning
him.
Not long afterward, there was a
fine mule stolen from James Golden
in the jenkins neighborhood, and no
clew could be got to it or the thief.
Both steals were published
in the BAzoo about the time of their
occurrence.
Yesterday, information was con-
veyed to Deputy Sheriff Bowers that
his man could be found at his fathers
residence, about ten miles DOrth of
Longwood, Saline county. Bowers
secured team and left here about 4
o'clock The distance TO his des-
tination was twenty-seven miles over
rough road. Arrived at Longwood
during the night, he enlisted the
services of Constable Glass, and the
two proceeded to the residence Of
John I. King, ten miles out of the
little place mentioned. 1t was day.
light when they took in the house
and cOrraled Caleb, a son of old man
King, and informed him he was their
prisoner.
Caleb proved to be young fellow of
about twenty-five, with dark hair and
eyes, and a faint suspicion of sum
burnt moustache on his upper lip. He
was hustled into the buggy and
Bowers and he started on the return
trip, reaching Sedalia at IL o'clock
this morning. All the way down,
Caleb denied that he was the right
party. After he was lodged in Jail,
Capt. Stephens and a couple of the
hands at the barn were summoned.
They recognized young King at
once, as the fellow who had disposed
of jenkins mule in May. Caleb
weakened when he found that he was
so well known, and duly confessed to
being the culprit. He went further
and said that he had stolen Golden's
mule, also.
This afternoon, King was taken be-
fore Justice Halsted, and two infOr-
nations were sworn out against him
by Prosecuting Attorney Lamm.
He waived examination and the jus
tice put him under $500 bonds in
each case to appear before the next
term of the criminal court. In de-
fault of furnishing these amounts, the
Justice committed King to Jail. While
in the court room, King met friend,
accidentally in town, and wept copi-
ously over the scrape he is in.
LATER.
Deputy Sheriff Matt Ayres, of
Saline county, was in Sedalia last
night, and called at the county Jail,
armed with a certified transcript of
certain proceedings in justice court
at Marshal. Caleb King, the mule
thief, it now appears, was under bonds
to appear this very day at Marshal to |
answer to the disposal of his uncle
Golden's mule in the neighboring
county mentioned. 10Th thefts
were committed in te- coun-
ty, and under instructions of
Prosecuting Attorney Lamm, acting
Sheriff Bowers refused to let King 60,
him tightly on the mule taken
from jenkins.
Ayres secured certified copy of
Halstead's commitment of King, and
this will play an important part in the
squire's court at Marshall to-day,
when Kings enforced forfeiture of
bond is brought up for consideration.
The authorities of Saline county can
prosecute King for bringing stolen
goods into their county, after Pettis
gets through with him.
1t now appears that when King
stole the mule from Jenkins, he
also purloined a saddle. This
he sold to Cohn, the second-ha nd
dealer, for 81. The saddle, which
was worth perhaps SO or SIS, was
disposed of by COIN to a third party,
and when it is recovered, may play
an important engagement in the afrer-
piece to the show now on.
As it is the unexpected which al
ways happens, somthing may not be
looked for in this King case, but it
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